Paradise Interpreted: Representations of Biblical Paradise in Judaism and Christianity (Themes in Biblical Narrative)

Paradise Interpreted: Representations of Biblical Paradise in Judaism and Christianity......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Gerard P. Luttikhuizen: Preface......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 12
1. The early Achaemenid era......Page 16
2. The later Achaemenid period......Page 20
3. The post-Achaemenid times......Page 26
4. Condusion......Page 32
APPENDIX: "PARADISE" IN CYPRUS......Page 34
1. Introduction......Page 36
2. Ezekiel 28......Page 37
2.1 The motif in Ezekiel 28: Being like a god......Page 39
2.2 The priestly language......Page 40
2.3 The mountain of God and the geography of Paradise......Page 42
3. Ezekiel 31......Page 49
4. Conclusions......Page 50
1. Introduction......Page 52
2. Paradise in 1 Enoch......Page 53
2.1. The Paradise of Righteousness in the Book of Watchers and the Astronomical Book......Page 54
2.2. Paradise in the Parables of Enoch......Page 62
4. Adam and Eden in some texts from the Judaean Desert......Page 64
4.1. 4QMeditation on Creation A (4Q303)......Page 66
4.2. 4QParaphrase of Genesis and Exodus (4Q422) and 4QWords of the Luminaries" (4Q504)......Page 68
4.3. 4QInstruction (4Q423 2 1-4)......Page 69
5. Conclusion......Page 71
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch) 32:2-6......Page 73
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch) 18:6-9a......Page 74
The Astronomical Book of Enoch (1 Enoch) 77:3......Page 77
Introduction......Page 78
1. The structure of Jubilees 3 in comparison with Genesis 2:4-3:24......Page 79
2.1. Harmonising the two accounts of creation......Page 82
2.2. Harmonising contradictions within the story of the Garden of Eden......Page 84
2.3. Harmonising different traditions......Page 89
2.4. Eden as a Temple......Page 90
Conclusions......Page 94
APPENDIX: SYNOPSIS GENESIS 2:4-4:1 A AND JUBILEES 3:1-35......Page 97
1. The Eden narrative in the Dead Sea Scrolls......Page 110
2. CD 4:20-21......Page 114
3. 4Q265 7 ii 11-17......Page 124
4. Summary......Page 129
Wout Jac. van Bekkum: Paradise as Paradigm: Good and Evil in Rabbinica and Kabbalah......Page 131
A. Hilhorst: A Visit to Paradise: Apocalypse of Paul 45 and Its Background......Page 143
1. Earthly Paradise as the abode of Adam and Eve......Page 145
a. Earthly Paradise as a place of bliss......Page 146
b. Fall of the first couple......Page 147
2. Earthly Paradise after the Fall......Page 149
3. Paradise in heaven......Page 151
Gerard P. Luttikhuizen: A Resistant Interpretation of the Paradise Story in the Gnostic Testimony of Truth (Nag Hamm. Cod. IX.3) 45-50......Page 155
1. The Testimony of Truth......Page 156
2. The creator-God and the serpent......Page 158
3. Historical context......Page 161
4. A Gnostic midrash?......Page 166
H.S. Benjamins: Paradisiacal Life: The Story of Paradise in the Early Church......Page 168
1. Paradise as an "otherworld"......Page 183
2. The historical paradise......Page 185
3. "Today you will be with me in Paradise"......Page 187
4. The cloister as paradise......Page 191
5. Conclusion......Page 193
Sander Brouwer: Russian Medieval Concepts of Paradise......Page 195
APPENDIX: Archbishop Vasili of Novgorod's epistle to bishop Fyodor of Tver......Page 205
Helen Wilcox: Milton and Genesis: Interpretation as Persuasion......Page 212
Milton's Paradise......Page 214
Interpretation as persuasion......Page 221
References to Ancient Texts......Page 224